One take a look at Jodie Turner-Smith in her Tron: Ares gentle swimsuit makes it clear: you completely wouldn’t mess along with her. The Queen & Slim star – just lately seen in The Acolyte – appears undeniably formidable in her guise for Joachim Rønning’s long-awaited blockbuster, taking audiences again to the world of Tron for the primary time since 2010’s Tron: Legacy. Meet Athena, second-in-command to Jared Leto’s Ares, able to bust out of the Grid and take cost.
“She is hardcore and fierce and powerful and dependable,” Turner-Smith tells Empire in our world-exclusive Tron: Ares situation. Throughout our set go to, she walks up in an actual light-up swimsuit, with close-cropped bleach-blonde hair and eyebrow-free face – the severity of the look completely chatting with Athena’s function. “It’s actually enjoyable to play any individual who’s simply completely uncompromising and openly going about undertaking their goals. And I used to be actually prepared to take that on proper now,” she explains. “I used to be like, ‘Ooh, villain period, let’s go.’”
For a movie all about AI going rogue, it’s becoming that Turner-Smith, too, went somewhat rogue – it was her resolution to shave her eyebrows off, which she took into her personal fingers. “Joachim truly was not down for that concept,” she laughs. “They needed me to go blonde, so I did, and I additionally bleached my eyebrows. After which I assumed, ‘You already know what? It’s gonna look higher if the eyebrows are gone. If anybody’s upset, I’ll simply inform them the bleach made them fall out.’ It was a type of instances of asking for forgiveness relatively than permission.” You don’t mess with Athena, then. And also you positively don’t mess with Jodie Turner-Smith.
Learn Empire’s full Tron: Ares cowl function – happening set to get the low-down on the Grid’s superb return from director Joachim Rønning and his solid – within the August 2025 situation, on sale Thursday 3 July. Pre-order a duplicate on-line right here. Tron: Ares involves UK cinemas from 10 October.
